yet, portrayed as some sort of a deficit hawk. yet when i'm reading your article, your analysis and others, what i'm getting to, he's not a deficit hawk at all. basically he's a guy who wants to shift economic wealth or opportunity from the bottom of the top. . he wants to create an ayn rand existence where the winners make all the money. the looters as they call them in those books get screwed. how does h he keep getting the image of being a deficit reducer? >> washington has a short themry. ryan was not a deficit hawk. go back in his career. he voted for the bush tax cuts, unfunded wars for iraq and afghanistan, voted for the medicare prescription drug benefit, a social security privatization proposal. in 2005, the george w. bush administration rejected because it would be too expense i. the transition costs would be in the trillions of dollars. what he found later on, the way he could get these policies taken so seriously, not seen as so radical, was to bring them in under the cloak of deficit reduction, under the guise of prev